The lowering expectations at Broadhall Way

Following several poor weeks and mind baffling interviews from the manager, players and chairman, I have decided to finally give up on promotion for this season and lower my expectations for every game I go to from now on.

In May, Wallace spoke like a chairman should saying we needed someone with Conference experience who could get us up and entertain. Seven months on and we have found ourselves in mid table obscurity, playing poor, boring football. I enjoyed watching Boro play stylish football just over a year ago, but the record books have never said anything about stylish football and sometimes we have to find a way to get out of this division and then build on the entertainment side.

Being pre season bookies favourites have built up even more expectation and unfortunately we don’t look capable of really pushing for that unless changes are made. Reading Wallace’s interview a couple of weeks ago surprised me. After several poor results and the poor standard of football being played he still jumped to the manager’s defence from a demanding crowd. The boo’s in some cases have been warranted.

Tuesday saw a deeply disappointing performance and at times poor attitude from some of the players. Steve Morison’s recent comments have disgusted me and his contribution despite being top scorer of the division has still been below par. His moaning and whinging attitude has surprised me and him criticising the fans will not be a popular decision. Moro is without doubt one of if not the best striker in the Conference, however getting to big for his boots is an understatement.

The appointment of Dino Maamria was another baffling decision for me. Dino has a certain reputation and won’t be to everyone’s liking and for me it showed again that Westley can’t seem to keep a coaching team together with Steve Greaves leaving. Westley has continued his old ways of blaming anything but himself even though most of the time his tactical decisions and team selections have cost us this season. He will always have an explanation of some sort.  

I will always attend every game possible and despite the problems we have will never stop supporting Boro, but Westley needs to understand the fans point of view. He has a busy January to sort out an unbalanced squad if the football is to improve and see the fans start coming back to BHW.

Lopo